Monday, May 22, 2023

Partizan 2023

 We drove across to Newark on Trent this weekend to visit Partizan Wargames Show. I was like a ten year old in a sweet shop with cash burning a hole in his pocket. Partizan has been on my list of Wargame shows to attend since my early days of wargaming. Very spectacular looking games were on display and the show was well attended. I met up with a number of people who I had been Facebook or an online friend for the last 25 odd years in one case. A huge amount of traders were in attendance and I made sure I had a very good look around and purchased a lot of minis and books to take back home to France.  

Ray Rousell, great to finally meet after 14 or more years chatting online! 


Another long time online mate Paul Barnett, his Rapid Fire 15mm Carentan table,is very impressive




Alan Sherward’s superb Arnhem Tables, they were spectacular, I have known Alan for 20 odd years online, yesterday first time we have spoken face to face





























To the Strongest mega game, thousands of beautiful figures 




Midgard, my wife loved the Viking mythology table 


Another of my favorites the ACW game 




A shot back up the hall hard to get a good photo 

Napoleonic lovely game this


The Entebbe 20mm RF game was superb, 



12 comments:

Cyrus said...

Great photos Matt, some amazing looking games at these big UK shows!

Ray Rousell said...

Great to meet up face to face yesterday Matt, glad you enjoyed the show, its great isn't it?

MartinC said...

Great to meet you both. Cool show

Lawrence H said...

Great pictures Matt. That Arnhem game was my favourite, and the Midgard game was very well done as well, as were they all.

caveadsum1471 said...

Lovely photos looks like another great show, long round trip!
Best Iain

alcal50 said...

Hi Matt yes at last we met up ,can i quickly add that the second Arnhem table was from Nick Skinner one of the Two Fat Lardies and part of my table was from Ade Deacon , we are all Chain Of Command gamers cheers AL...Ps thanks for the comments guys

Bluewillow said...

Yes some fabulous demonstration games there mate. Hope to be at Cancon in January see you there!

Cheers
Matt

Bluewillow said...

It was a true pleasure mate to finally meet! It is a great show be back next year too I think

Bluewillow said...

Fabulous to finally meet face to face mate

Bluewillow said...

Yes some superb games on display, i have more photos but in my haste my thumb was over the lens on the pigeon game which was hilarious!

Cheers
Matt

Bluewillow said...

Yes we had a grand time

Bluewillow said...

Cheers Al, you are an inspiration mate